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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #30 on: May 06, 2008, 07:28:02 am »
You don't need a name server, you just need to buy the domain, flat out.

.. Pff, same thing. :P

Not exactly..

But yeah, when you buy the domain, make sure you have complete control over the nameservers.. some places refuse to hand out the ability to change nameservers and such..


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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #31 on: May 06, 2008, 09:36:08 pm »
I started nurturing a mod web site idea when textures were announced. Then I saw this thread and was spurred even further to just do it. So I've started coding a web site. I'm currently hosting it at my home server and it is available to register users already. That is however, all the functionality it currently has. I just started banging the site together two and half hours ago.

http://68.108.198.214:90 (I don't have a static IP at home, so it may change eventually, though it hasn't in quite some time)
(site currently alternates between black & white themes because I haven't coded a theme selector)

Basically heres the feature I plan to implement:
Will be able to upload texture images and users will be able to download them in packages (ZIP).
Best part, mixing and matching different images from different authors.
Better yet, particle images have 4 quadrants per image right? You can mix and match quadrants from different images from different authors to create your own customized mod.
Customized packages will be saved, so you can link your friends to the package as well (ie http://www.audiosurfmods.com/download/package/28391281830). Fully integrated comment and rating system, standard stuff for content delivery systems.

I can do the site front end and back end, but frankly I don't feel like moderating. So I'd like to extend an invitation to Zlurk and others to join my effort as moderators. Of course if others interested want to contribute in some way thats great too.

If you guys are happy with that, I'll go ahead and register the domain (http://www.audiosurfmods.com). No skin off my back to fork out domain registration and hosting fee. 

I just wanted to post this offer in this thread, since I did get the name audiosurfmods from this thread.
« Last Edit: May 06, 2008, 09:39:31 pm by giberson »

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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #32 on: May 06, 2008, 09:40:09 pm »
Amazing offer giberson. Zlurk is in charge, as you know. No need for hosting fee, since that comes out of my wallet. The domain registration fee payment is an amazing offer I believe..

If Zlurk accepts (he better xP), I'd be more than happy to host such a great site. I'd even help with moderating and such.


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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #33 on: May 07, 2008, 05:53:15 am »
"Theme the music you ride"? :P
I prefer 'Ride your Mod' ^^

The site looks good and the promises too. If it delivers, it will be awesome ^^

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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #34 on: May 07, 2008, 06:00:58 am »
I love the mix and match thing giberson, uploading single textures. So people aren't just downloading full texture packages, they can mix n match, that's awesome.

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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #35 on: May 08, 2008, 12:48:21 am »
I specifically mentioned that if anyone wanted to contribute to the project they should let us know because now what you've created so far somewhat clashes with what we've started to do and/or plan to do, design-wise or idea-wise. Nevertheless, your help and ideas would be of great help for the creation of the website, though as for design, I think we'll stick with what we have so far.

Personally I have quite a lot to pay for as of late, so I'm not entirely certain I'd be able to pay for the domain name, so that suggestion is actually a relief.

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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #36 on: May 08, 2008, 02:20:30 am »
what about audiosurfshop? .com seems to be taken but .net and .org are available (alternatively audio-surfshop.com and audiosurf-shop.com are also available)

I also think 'Mod Your Ride' would be a good theme :)

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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #37 on: May 08, 2008, 03:31:17 am »
i like audiosurfmods its simple and easy to remember.
mod your ride seems a good theme to me.

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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #38 on: May 08, 2008, 07:03:11 am »
I specifically mentioned that if anyone wanted to contribute to the project they should let us know because now what you've created so far somewhat clashes with what we've started to do and/or plan to do, design-wise or idea-wise. Nevertheless, your help and ideas would be of great help for the creation of the website, though as for design, I think we'll stick with what we have so far.

Personally I have quite a lot to pay for as of late, so I'm not entirely certain I'd be able to pay for the domain name, so that suggestion is actually a relief.

Zlurk, he offered his help with the coding of the website and such, as in he would help make it. Second, he started his before you started yours :P

We don't have anything, do we? Giberson already has the site designed and is starting to code the backend and such... I really suggest you let me take over hosting his, as it would be a lot less stress trying to come up with a new design and new code from scratch.


EDIT: Okay, I reread the thread and saw that you guys might've started something. In that case, you should post your design, and either pick the better one and go with it, or combine aspects of each design into one.


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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #39 on: May 08, 2008, 07:44:59 am »
I think blacknailed is finishing it right now. You'll have to turn to him for an update. :)

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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #40 on: May 08, 2008, 10:43:38 pm »
IS it ready yet? D:

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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #41 on: May 09, 2008, 03:37:24 am »
Man of the Stick has spoken.

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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #42 on: May 11, 2008, 05:45:17 am »
Well this is what i got atm
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u6/ejlan90/test05.jpg?t=1210509613
(havn't been able to do anything this weekend :-[ due to my gpu cooling, it have been like 30C here in sweden so my already burning gpu dies every 30min) hopefully i will be able do do more real soon (today im hoping) 

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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #43 on: May 11, 2008, 10:35:07 am »
Well this is what i got atm
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u6/ejlan90/test05.jpg?t=1210509613
(havn't been able to do anything this weekend :-[ due to my gpu cooling, it have been like 30C here in sweden so my already burning gpu dies every 30min) hopefully i will be able do do more real soon (today im hoping) 


No offence BlackNailed, it looks great, but that sort of layout is more suited for a blog or a clan-site.

For example, this site: http://www.hsxclan.com/ (currently broken in FF3) is a similar layout and has trouble doing anything but putting text in. When designing a website, you've got to look past just the aesthetics and look to your audience, future content, page load times, and bandwidth.

See, for a website of this caliber and high-amount of content, we need a lot of screen "real estate". A cramped 2-column blog-esqe layout would not do the content justice and lead to a claustrophobic feeling.

Second, our audience, audiosurf players. Most have at least 1024x768 or higher.. We need a fluid layout to benefit the lower-spectrum of users, as well as the higher resolutions. You've done well making it greater than 800x600, but it seriously needs to be bigger.

Content.. We'll be having textures, sound files (eventually), high-res screen shots, and youtube videos. We'll be connecting to a MySQL database on almost every page, querying data. Sure, the 600px section may be large enough for the textures and youtube videos, but I'd like to be able to at least zoom into almost-full resolution, with a link to the largest resolution.

When browsing through many pages of simple textures and such, we want fast load times so we don't have to wait for 3 seconds as the image-heavy page is painted. We would need a simple layout with small files and optimized code. http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ is a good site to test your website on. Try to shoot for as many congratulations as possible. Although most of us still have broadband, Audiosurf does not require broadband, and that is why we shouldn't be exclusive toward broadband users.

Bandwidth.. Even though I'm offering 6TB, it is unnecessary to strain the servers and make the service slower for everyone else. We are selling the content, not the design (not literally).

This, you see, is why I like giberson's simple, fluid, optimized layout over your beginnings. Again, no offense, but for a website like this, we can't have an image-bloated design.


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Re: Possibility of starting an addon website
« Reply #44 on: May 11, 2008, 09:12:40 pm »
Well this is what i got atm
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u6/ejlan90/test05.jpg?t=1210509613
(havn't been able to do anything this weekend :-[ due to my gpu cooling, it have been like 30C here in sweden so my already burning gpu dies every 30min) hopefully i will be able do do more real soon (today im hoping) 


Oh please join efferts with giberson. His layout PWNS yours...
But yours isn't really bad.